List of film critics

Film critics analyze and evaluate film.

They can be divided into journalistic critics who write for newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic critics who are informed by film theory and publish in journals.

Notable journalistic critics

 * Taran Adarsh (indiaFM)
 * James Agee (Time, The Nation)
 * Hollis Alpert (Saturday Review)
 * David Ansen (Newsweek)
 * Michael Atkinson
 * James Berardinelli
 * Peter Biskind
 * Peter Bogdanovich
 * Hye Bossin
 * Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian)
 * Joe Bob Briggs
 * Richard Brody (The New Yorker)
 * Tom Brook (BBC)
 * Ty Burr (The Boston Globe)
 * Ernest Callenbach
 * Vincent Canby (The New York Times)
 * Charles Champlin (The Los Angeles Times)
 * Justin Chang (The Los Angeles Times, Fresh Air, Variety)
 * Anupama Chopra (Anupama Chopra)
 * Michel Ciment (Positif)
 * Jay Cocks (Time)
 * Pat Collins (WWOR-TV)
 * Richard Corliss (Time)
 * Kevin Courrier (CBC Radio, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail)
 * Richard Crouse
 * Bosley Crowther (The New York Times)
 * Mike D'Angelo (Esquire)
 * Manohla Dargis (The New York Times)
 * David Denby (The New Yorker)
 * Alonso Duralde (The Wrap)
 * Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times, At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper)
 * David Edelstein (New York Magazine, NPR's Fresh Air, CBS Sunday Morning)
 * Glenn Erickson (Online Film Critics Society)
 * Manny Farber (The New Republic, Artforum)
 * Otis Ferguson (The New Republic)
 * Arturo Rodríguez Fernández
 * John H. Foote
 * Gary Franklin (KABC-TV)
 * Philip French (The Observer)
 * Penelope Gilliatt (The Observer, The New Yorker)
 * Owen Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly)
 * Randor Guy
 * Leslie Halliwell
 * Jake Hamilton (Houston Chronicle)
 * Molly Haskell (New York Magazine)
 * J. Hoberman (The Village Voice)
 * Stephen Holden (The New York Times)
 * Ann Hornaday (The Washington Post)
 * Stephen Hunter (The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post)
 * Pauline Kael (The New Yorker)
 * Sudhish Kamath (The Hindu)
 * Stanley Kauffmann (The New Republic)
 * Dave Kehr (The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Daily News, The New York Times)
 * Lisa Kennedy (The Denver Post)
 * Glenn Kenny (Premiere)
 * Mark Kermode (The Observer, BBC Radio Five Live)
 * Anthony Lane (The New Yorker)
 * Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle)
 * C.A. Lejeune (The Observer)
 * Christy Lemire (Associated Press)
 * Emanuel Levy ((Variety)
 * Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
 * Jeffrey Lyons (WNBC)
 * Derek Malcolm (The Guardian)
 * Leonard Maltin (Entertainment Tonight, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide)
 * Morton Marcus (Cinema Scene)
 * Rajeev Masand (CNN-IBN, India)
 * Janet Maslin (The New York Times)
 * Harold McCarthy
 * Todd McCarthy (Variety, The Hollywood Reporter)
 * Michael Medved (New York Post, Sneak Previews)
 * Nell Minow (rogerebert.com and moviedom.com)
 * Elvis Mitchell (The New York Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, The Detroit Free Press)
 * Khalid Mohammed (Hindustan Times)
 * Joe Morgenstern (The Wall Street Journal)
 * Wesley Morris (The Boston Globe)
 * Vittorio Mussolini
 * Kim Newman (Empire)
 * Barry Norman (BBC)
 * Frank Nugent (The New York Times)
 * Mario Nuzzolese (Corriere della Sera)
 * Robert Osborne
 * Geoff Pevere (CBC Radio, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail)
 * Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune)
 * Margaret Pomeranz (At the Movies)
 * Dilys Powell (The Sunday Times)
 * Vasiraju Prakasam (Vaartha)
 * Nathan Rabin (The A.V. Club)
 * Rex Reed (New York Observer)
 * B. Ruby Rich (Film Quarterly)
 * Frank Rich (Time, New York)
 * Carrie Rickey (Philadelphia Inquirer)
 * Shirrel Rhoades
 * Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun-Times, At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper)
 * Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader)
 * Jonathan Ross (BBC)
 * Dan Sallitt (The Los Angeles Reader, The Chicago Reader, The Village Voice, MUBI)
 * Andrew Sarris (The Village Voice)
 * Richard Schickel (Time)
 * Paul Schrader (Film Comment)
 * A. O. Scott (New York Times)
 * Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly)
 * Matt Zoller Seitz (The House Next Door, RogerEbert.com)
 * Gene Shalit (NBC's Today Show)
 * Mayank Shekhar (Dainik Bhaskar)
 * Tom Shone (The Sunday Times)
 * Joel Siegel (Good Morning America)
 * John Simon (New York, Esquire)
 * Gene Siskel (Chicago Tribune, Siskel & Ebert)
 * David Sterritt (The Christian Science Monitor)
 * Dana Stevens (Slate)
 * David Stratton (At the Movies)
 * Elliott Stein (Village Voice)
 * Amy Taubin (Artforum)
 * Anne Thompson (Variety, The Hollywood Reporter)
 * David Thomson
 * Desson Thomson (The Washington Post)
 * Peter Travers (Rolling Stone)
 * François Truffaut (Cahiers du cinéma)
 * Kenneth Turan (The Los Angeles Times, Morning Edition)
 * Parker Tyler (Film Culture)
 * Jan Wahl (KRON-TV)
 * Alexander Walker (London Evening Standard and others)
 * David Walsh (World Socialist Web Site)
 * Michael Walsh ("The Province")
 * Armond White (New York Press)
 * Stephanie Zacharek (Time, Salon (website))
 * Ziad Abdullah (The New Arab, Al Akhbar (Lebanon), Al-Hayat and Emarat Al Youm)

Notable academic critics

 * Rudolf Arnheim
 * Béla Balázs
 * André Bazin (Cahiers du Cinéma)
 * David Bordwell
 * Noël Burch
 * Ernest Callenbach
 * Ray Carney
 * Park Chan-wook
 * Carol J. Clover
 * Hamid Dabashi
 * Serge Daney (Cahiers du Cinéma, Libération, Trafic)
 * Maya Deren
 * Wheeler Winston Dixon
 * Mary Ann Doane
 * Vijayakrishnan
 * Raymond Durgnat
 * Sergei Eisenstein
 * William K. Everson
 * Ritwik Ghatak
 * Denis Gifford
 * Jean-Luc Godard (Cahiers du Cinéma)
 * Shigehiko Hasumi
 * Siegfried Kracauer
 * Emanuel Levy
 * Jay Leyda
 * Phillip Lopate
 * Kaden Loyet
 * Adrian Martin
 * Christian Metz
 * James Monaco
 * Laura Mulvey
 * Hugo Münsterberg
 * Antonio Napolitano
 * James Naremore
 * Nagisa Oshima
 * Satyajit Ray
 * Tony Rayns
 * Éric Rohmer (Cahiers du Cinéma)
 * Raúl Ruiz (director)
 * Jacques Rivette (Cahiers du Cinéma)
 * Tadao Sato
 * Kaja Silverman
 * Susan Sontag
 * David Sterritt
 * David Stratton
 * Kristin Thompson
 * Alexis Tioseco
 * Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
 * Robin Wood
 * Slavoj Žižek